When gave Johnon Ford Higon Wayne his big break with "Stagecoach" in 1939, It may have seemed to the masses as if the duke came out of nowhere. But Ford actually waited for more than a decade to bring Wayne to the big leaguesDuring what time the young actor cut his teeth into dozens of films, forged what is in a retrospective impressively fruitful career before Hollywood's fame.

After "Stagecoach" Wayne, whose real name was Marion Robert Morrison, remained obliged to Ford and always spoke high about the director despite their often disputed connection. But the director was not, in fact, the first director to give Wayne a leading role in a great feature that had the potential to make his career. That honor fell on Raul Walsh, who threw Wayne into his EP on a wide screen in 1930 "The Great Trail".

The film was conceived as a celebration of Oregon's centenary, and was a big affair filmed in a new 70mm wide screen format called "Fox Majichie". It was recorded in seven countries and used more than 700 actors from indigenous Americans as accessories, as well as five different castes for English, Spanish, Italian, French and German repetitions of the film. At the forefront of this grandiose company was Wayne as a fur trapper Breck Coleman, who is tasked with the sheep group of pioneers and their wagon train through the Oregon track. On the way, Brek is looking for men who killed his mentor, and the group faces all kinds of failures, from the attack on indigenous Americans to crunchy desert heat. Romance even blooms when Breck falls for the border of Ruth Cameron's woman (Margiter Churchill).

Unfortunately, "The Great Trail" was mostly doomed to state -of -the -art camera technology and great depression. Fox's magnificence format was not supported by many theaters, and the film failed to live in its excitement. But that gave Wayne his first lead role and remains one of his most unnecessary, but most respected films today, with 100% rating of Rotten tomatoes. In that sense, it is a good thing Wayne actually managed to make the film, because at one point he was almost released from his first leading role.

"The Great Path" may have been a commercial failure during the release in 1930, but remains a Breaking Wine Western, even if many probably never seen that. The film made his debut over the years in which Wayne was an unknown relative, and his releases of Magnija Fox have only worsened things. However, although it may not be as often as "Stagecoach" or "The Searchers" When discussing Wayne's best films, look at her rotten tomatoes on the side is all you have to do to see that it is one of the most critical efforts of the actor - even if that 100% rating is based on just nine reviews. Moreover, the film was a big step for the then young Starwar, which otherwise spent its pre- "Stagecoach" years, reduced it to the so-called. The "poverty order" West that was fueled by cheap.

According to the Duke himself, he almost missed that he starred in the west of the west of Raul Walsh. In his infamous 1971 Playboy Interview, in which he said some things that have been untils death in 1979, Wayne Spoke about filming "The Big Trail as One of the Times He" Really Felt Like a Fool. "The Actor Recalled Shooting the Picture In Yuma, Arizona, when he was struck by Illness. "According to the actor, he was sick for so long that production approached his return without him. He continued:

"This was the worst case I've ever had in life. I was sick so long that they finally said." Ezec, Duke, if you can't get up now, we have to get someone else to take your place. So, with a loss of 18 kg, I returned to work. "

As controversial as Johnon Wayne became in the years after telling Playboy that indigenous Americans were "selfish" because they wanted to stick to their country, you can not say that he has never been ready to impose on his craft. Wayne, who was almost killed in the 1928 Neuwa Chest set, "Noah", ",", Has also suffered numerous injuries throughout his career, Breaking ribs and pushing through the pain to make the 1973 "train robbers". It seems that this willingness to persist in difficult times has characterized his career from the beginning, with Wayne recalling in his interview with Playboy, as his first scene on the "big track" he was wearing an actor named Tuli Marshall, who was known to have "little used it". The actor explained:

"He had a big jug in his hand in this scene and I lowered it, and we drink with another man. They first conveyed the jug, and I dug into it; it was directly whiskey for Buttleg with Butta.

Wayne's ability to put pressure on pain stayed with him during his career and clearly served him well, even if it means he suffered a lifelong injury after tearing some ligaments in the shoulder shooting the "unreasonable" of 1969 and pushing forward by filming anyway. His efforts on the "Great Path" may not have succeeded in the box office, but nearly a century later, the film is respected as a neglected classic, so it's worth the end.